Banner project: trying to combine automated slider animations and user interaction

Hello everyone,

I’m actually creating a flash banner allowing simple user interaction. I’ll try to be as clear as possible in the following description, but my guess is the .fla attached to this post will be more effective :stuck_out_tongue:

On the stage, 4 buttons are displayed. When on of them is clicked, it’s associated movieclip slides on the stage and is displayed within a mask. I created 4 movieclieclips side by side and combined them in one main movieclip to control the slider animation

I’m now trying to add some features to my project.

Firstly, I would like to automate the slider animation from the moment the swf is loaded, but without loosing the mouse event targeting each pages when the buttons are clicked.

For example: the swf is opened -> page 1 is displayed, then after a few seconds, it slides to page 2 automaticly. If the user doesn’t clik on a button, the slider keeps going. If the user clicks on a button, the associated page is displayed. Then, without any interaction, the slider starts moving again, from it’s actual position.

Also, I turned every pages to individual movieclips and gave them an instance name (page1, page2…) My goal here is to create some simple animations inside each movieclips that would be launched only when the pages are displayed.

For example: the swf is opened -> page 1 is displayed and the animation starts. Then the page 3 button is pressed by the user -> Page 3 is displayed and only from that moment, the animation contained in the movieclip starts.

I hope I’ve been clear enough in this post, if not I apologize… Even if I did my best xD

Thank you guys by advance for any upcomming answers

Regards,

Erik J.